Is possible to save JavaScript variable as file?
You can use a data: URI like in adeneo's answer, but another way is to use an HTML5 Blob and createObjectURL (similarly using the download attribute to create a download link).
The benefit of using createObjectURL is that there are severe size limits to data URIs in most browsers.
Example code taken from linked article:
var typedArray = GetTheTypedArraySomehow();
var blob = new Blob([typedArray], {type: 'application/octet-binary'});
// pass a useful mime type here
var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
// url will be something like: blob:d3958f5c-0777-0845-9dcf-2cb28783acaf
// now you can use the url in any context that regular URLs can be used
// in, for example img.src, etc.
Yes it is, you could do something like this in HTML5, using the download
attribute
function download_txt() {
var textToSave = document.getElementById('txt').innerHTML;
var hiddenElement = document.createElement('a');
hiddenElement.href = 'data:attachment/text,' + encodeURI(textToSave);
hiddenElement.target = '_blank';
hiddenElement.download = 'myFile.txt';
hiddenElement.click();
}
document.getElementById('test').addEventListener('click', download_txt);
FIDDLE
To store a javascript variable, I suggest you to use libraries of data storage just like this one. where you can set a variable, get it , remove it ...
$.setData("key","value");
$.getData("key");
$.removeData("key");
but to store it on a file and make downloadable you have to pass by the server unless you use a javascript trick to download a file which doesn't exist, you just declare these functions
var Download =
{
click : function(node) {
var ev = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
ev.initMouseEvent("click", true, false, self, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
return node.dispatchEvent(ev);
},
encode : function(data) {
return 'data:application/octet-stream;base64,' + btoa( data );
},
link : function(data, name){
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.download = name || self.location.pathname.slice(self.location.pathname.lastIndexOf('/')+1);
a.href = data || self.location.href;
return a;
}
};
Download.save = function(data, name)
{
this.click(
this.link(
this.encode( data ),
name
)
);
};
and when you want to download a file, you do this
Download.save("data to be on a file","FileName.txt");
Finally, you need to combine the datastorage and the filedownload solution to get the result you're asking for